UNLABELLED Advanced prostate cancer patients often undergo androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Advanced disease and adverse ADT side effects are often debilitating and negatively impact mood. Social support has been shown to mitigate detrimental effects of stress on mood. OBJECTIVE This study sought to characterize positive and negative mood in this select patient population and determine whe...

Background Adenosine stress MR shows high sensitivity and intermediate-to-high specificity; therefore, there is a number of false positive patients that is referred to useless coronary angiography studies after a positive adenosine stress MR. We sought to verify whether the (semi) quantification of the amount of ischemic myocardium can improve the management of patients after a positive adenosi...

Despite the high prevalence of stress exposure healthy adaptation or resilience is a common response. Theoretical work and recent empirical evidence suggest that a robust reward system, in part, supports healthy adaptation by preserving positive emotions even under exceptionally stressful circumstances. We tested this prediction by examining empirical relations among behavioral and self-reporte...

We subjected III–V InGaAs MOSFETs to positive and negative gate stresses. The stress polarity strongly affects the degradation kinetics of the gate current. Positive stress features a remarkable increase of the gate current, a net negative trapped charge, a large telegraphic noise, and soft breakdown, before the occurrence of the final catastrophic breakdown. Negative stress features only posit...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prognostic value of stress echocardiography as an adjunct to exercise electrocardiography in patients with uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction. DESIGN 496 patients underwent a maximum exercise ECG and pharmacological stress echocardiography (406 dobutamine and 90 dipyridamole) within 15 days of uncomplicated acute myocardial infarction and were followed for a mea...

abstract background : occupational stress is a recognized problem in health care workers .nursing has been identified as an occupation that has high levels of stress. this study aimed to investigate the sources of job stress and the adopted coping strategies of nurses who were working in accident and emergency department. methods : in this descriptive survey ninety emergency ward nurses from th...

BACKGROUND Despite advances in medical therapy, cardiovascular disease, mainly coronary artery disease (CAD), remains the leading cause of mortality among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The objective of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of dipyridamole stress echocardiography in identify diabetic patients at high risk for cardiovascular events. METHODS Dipyridamole stre...